Antiques Auction

We decided that we didn't want to move the huge family antique furniture again. It was moved from my grandmother's house in Alpine, Tx, to the house in Clint (El Paso area) then when we moved to the city, it was moved to a rental house before we bought our house on Vista Laguna, El Paso. It then went to Proctor with us before being moved to our house in Brownwood. Needless to say it has been moved and MOVED. Since my daughter really didn't want it, I thought it would be good to have it settled with someone/s who would love and appreciate it, hence the antiques auction.

I'm talking about a turn-of-the-century claw foot black lacquer dining room set with side board, china cabinet, serving table, table with 4 leaves and 8 chairs.




This was joined by another piece that is hard to describe--it had been in my mother's dining room forever. Very heavy, lots of beveled glass with drawers, and glass doors.



The bedroom furniture was equally massive with a chest of drawers almost as tall as I am, a large bedside table, a rather ordinary bed (except for the fact that it was made for a short lady--a cousin of my grandmother's- and was originally very short. The bed had been lengthened to fit a full size mattress before I got it, but the extensions were obvious on the frame) The unique and unusual part of the bedroom set was the dresser. In some rooms where it was housed, it dwarfed the entire room, in others--really large rooms-- it was right at home. The dresser was built in 4 parts, a base about 36 inches high with 4 drawers, a massive beveled oval mirror with two side mirrors attached, the 3rd and 4th parts were side cabinets which sat on the base on either side having the side mirrors on top of them. Sounds really complicated, but it was massive and elegant.


At any rate, these items were sold at an antique auction in Brownwood. I hope that whoever bought these pieces, will appreciate them and enjoy them as I did.

We decided to keep some of our easier-to-move antique furniture items. We kept my grandmother's treadle sewing machine,



a wind up victrola (which still works)


and 3 sets of lawyer stacks (bookshelves) which were in my grandfather's law office.


It is amazing how much STUFF we disposed of from our house, storage shed, and workshop either via auctions, giving things to friends, donating to Good Samaritan, or just TRASHING. Come on, who needs boxes of never opened floppy discs--antiques in their own right. We whittled and pared down our stuff before packing, so we could make this move lighter than our other times.

More later about U-Hauls and packing and packing and packing.